Sorry, Renters, No New Insurance Policies Until After Irene

Pull your renters’ insurance policy out of the drawer, the AP’s hurricane survival guide advises, and put it in an airtight baggie! But for New Yorkers who neglected to secure such a policy, scrambling to the phone to get a quote won’t work: at least some heartless insurers have decreed no new policies in some parts of the East Coast will be written until after the storm. How do we know? Twitter.

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